Alumni
Rustam Atadjanov
Rustam B. Atadjanov, LLB, LLM, PhD (born in Nukus, Uzbekistan) received his undergraduate degree in law from the Karakalpak State University named after Berdakh back in 2003. Having acquired a practical legal experience as an Assistant Lawyer in the Bar Association of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Senior Legal Consultant in the Juridical Help and Advice Center, he subsequently graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law with an LLM degree in International Human Rights Law in 2006. Prior to joining the University of Hamburg Faculty of Law's doctoral programme in 2014, Rustam worked as a Programme Responsible for National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law and further on as Legal Adviser in the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Central Asia for several years. Rustam's background combines both academic and practical experience, with the main focus on international legal topics. His research interests include foremost the substantive and procedural issues pertaining to Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Constitutional Law, Theory of State and Law, and others. Besides, he speaks several languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, English, French and basic German and Ukrainian) and publishes in a number of academic journals on a wide range of topics in the sphere of international law. Previously, Rustam taught the foreign language course "An Introduction to International Criminal Law" as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Law. He presently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Public and International Law at the KIMEP University School of Law, Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he teaches Theory of State and Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Public International Law, Law of International Treaties and other Public Law-related courses.
PhD thesis: “Humanity” as Humanness: a Constituent Element of International Law Applicable to Crimes against Humanity (defended 6 June 2018, earned "magna cum laude"), supervisors: Prof. Dr. iur. Florian Jessberger, Prof. Dr. iur. Rainer Keller and Prof. Dr. Nora Markard. Rustam's doctoral research deals with the concept of "humanity" as it pertains to crimes against humanity. His thesis' analysis considers this particular concept in its different aspects starting from its historical development and role in international law, to contemporary state in international criminal law, and to its place in various doctrinal theories of crimes against humanity. That analysis plays a key role in reviewing the exact nature of "humanity" as acquiring its own standing of a fully valid legal interest within the meaning of the Rechtsgut theory ("protection of legal good"). His manuscript has been published with the T.M.C. Asser Press and Springer in June 2019 as a monograph titled "Humanness as a Protected Legal Interest of Crimes against Humanity: Conceptual and Normative Aspects", under the International Criminal Justice Series (vol. 22).
Aydin Atilgan
Aydin Atilgan erhielt einen Bachelorabschluss in Rechtswissenschaften von der Universität Ankara (2004) und einen MA-Abschluss vom Marmara Universität EU-Institut in Istanbul, Türkei (2008). Einige Jahre praktizierte er als Anwalt und arbeitete in mehreren Projekten als Rechtsberater, Autor und Übersetzer. Seit November 2012 ist er Doktorand an der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Er war Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Bremen als DAAD-Fellow (2011-2012) und an der Universität Macerata, Italien (Sommer 2013). Er hat an verschiedenen Schulungen, Konferenzen, Sommerkursen und Seminare zu seinen Forschungsbereichen teilgenommen.
Global Constitutionalism: A Socio-legal Perspective
Aydin Atilgans Dissertation trägt den Titel „Global Constitutionalism: A Socio-legal Perspective”. Er befasst sich mit globalen Konstitutionalismustheorien, die mehrere Entwicklungen in Richtung Zusammenarbeit und Einheit im globalen Bereich als Indikatoren eines Konstitutionalisierungsprozesses interpretieren. Herr Atilgan untersucht diese Theorien unter sozial- und rechtswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten, wobei er sich auf die Theorien der klassischen Gelehrten stützt.
Noby Thomas Cyriac
Born in 1990 in Kerala, India. Noby Thomas Cyriac completed his B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) degree with specialization in Business Laws in 2014 from the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala. He enrolled himself as an advocate in the same year and joined Joseph & Kuriyan Advocates where he started his litigation practice in Kerala (2014-16). His practices areas were civil, corporate litigation and arbitration. In 2016, he received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding – Dr. Angela Merkel Scholarship. Pursuant to this Award, he was selected for the LL.M. program in “European and European Legal Studies” at the Europa Kolleg Hamburg, University of Hamburg (2016-17). Meanwhile in his first year in Germany he was associated with the Competition Law team of Baker Mckenzie in Dusseldorf. His Master Thesis focus was on "The Role of Big Data in the EU Commission's Control of Mergers: The Facebook/WhatsApp Case and Beyond".
Since November 2017, Noby Thomas Cyriac is a Ph.D. student of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. As an Ambsl researcher he is working on the topic of Abuse of Dominance by Big Data dominant firms in the realm of EU competition law jurisprudence.
Thiago A. Fauvrelle
Research Interests:
Monetary & fiscal policy framework; Business cycles; Institutional economics; Contract law & economics; International law & finance;
Thesis Title:
Law & Economics analysis of the international sovereign bond market
Academic Background:
2014-2015: LL.M. European Master in Law and Economics (Erasmus University of Rotterdam & University of Hamburg);
Master in Business, Law and Economics (Aix-Marseille University);
2009-2013: Bachelor of Economics with first class honors (Federal University of Paraíba);
2009-2014: Bachelor of Laws with first class honors (University Center of João Pessoa);
Summer courses in Boston University (2013) and Perpignan University (2011)
Work Experience:
2015-2015: Consultant for the European Commission;
2014-2014: Associate lawyer (Advocacia Carlos Aquino & Associados);
2012-2013: Undergraduate teaching assistant in Tax Law (University Center of João Pessoa);
2010-2013: Junior researcher on Economic Development, Monetary and Fiscal policy (Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)
Barbara Germann
barbara.germann"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Englisch-bilinguales Abitur 2008 in Düsseldorf; Volontariat bei Sorya e.V. in Kambodscha (2008/2009); Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität zu Münster (2009-2014); Fachspezifische Fremdsprachenausbildung für Juristen (FFA) im Bereich common law (2009-2011); Studienaufenthalt in Frankreich an der Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (2011); erste juristische Staatsprüfung (Oktober 2014); seit 2015 Stipendiatin, Scholar und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law; Promotionsstudentin im Bereich des öffentlichen Rechts.
Julia Harten
Julia Harten ist seit 2018 Mitglied und Stipendiatin der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Außerdem arbeitet sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bei Prof. Reinhard Bork am Seminar für Zivilprozess- und Allgemeines Prozessrecht. Derzeit liegt ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt im Internationalen Insolvenzrecht. Sie hat einen LL.M. Abschluss im Corporate Law von der University of Edinburgh, für den sie den T.B. Smith Prize für die beste Studienleistung aller juristischen Postgraduiertenstudiengänge ihres Jahrgangs erhielt (Most Distinguished Scholar graduating from the LLM or MSc postgraduate degrees).
Ihre akademische Ausbildung begann sie in Hamburg, wo sie Rechtswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung studierte. Ein Jahr ihres Studiums verbrachte sie in Paris an der Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ihr Studium wurde durch die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes gefördert. Als studentische Hilfskraft konnte sie bereits Erfahrung in einer Forschungsgruppe zum Werks- und Dienstvertragsrecht am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht sammeln.
Xenofon Kontargyris, LL.M.
Xenofon Kontargyris was born in Doumbia, Halkidiki, Greece in 1984. He entered the Aristotle’s University Law Faculty (Thessaloniki) in 2002 and obtained his LLB in 2007. He then moved on to pursue an LLM in International & EU Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2008). He has worked as a legal assistant for NATO’s Greek Combat Unit and as a Communications & Training officer for the European Commission.
As an academic, he has focused on intellectual property and competition law, with his dissertation in the context of his LLM being an analysis of the ‘Microsoft vs. the European Commission’ case before the CJEU. He then focused on effective regulation of different aspects of the internet, having contributed in conferences as an author on issues such as, the different approaches the EU and the US take on cloud technologies (EUTIC 2013, Waterford, Ireland), the evolution of Facebook’s privacy rules (e-Democracy 2013, Athens, Greece) and the ‘right to be forgotten’ (IFIP 2015, Edinburgh, UK).
As an AMBSL researcher Xenofon works on the topic of Cloud Computing Regulation, conducting a comparative study between EU and US law with the aim of building a set of regulatory principles that should serve as a basis for efficient regulation of cloud computing and its applications across different jurisdictions.
Xenofon is a qualified lawyer and member of the Thessaloniki Bar since September 2009.
Pipitsa Kousoula
Pipitsa Kousoula wurde 1987 in Athen, Griechenland geboren. 2005 begann sie ihr Studium in der juristischen Fakultät der Nationalen Kapodistrian Universität Athen, welches sie im August 2010 abschloss. Seit Oktober 2010 nahm sie am LL.M. Programm der Juristischen Fakultät Hamburg teil. Ihr Masterstudium schloss sie mit der Verteidigung ihrer Arbeit mit dem Titel „Der Staatsrat im Verfassungsgefüge der DDR“ im Juli 2012 erfolgreich ab. Im August 2012 begann sie ihr Fernreferendariat in Griechenland. Seit November 2013 ist sie Doktorandin der Albrecht Mendelsohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law und forscht zu dem Thema „Vom Bailout – Verbot zur solidarischen Bailout – Pflicht? Die Entwicklungen der europarechtlichen Rahmen in Krisezeiten und ihre Folgen“. Seit September 2013 arbeitet sie auch als Dozentin des weiterbildenden Studiums für Dolmetschen und Übersetzen der Arbeitsstelle für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (AWW) der Universität Hamburg. Seit Juli 2021 arbeitet sie als Transaction Lawyer bei Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater PartG mbB in Hamburg. Muttersprache ist Griechisch und sie spricht auch Deutsch, Englisch und Spanisch.
Mika Kremer
Kalika Mehta
kalika.mehta"AT"geneva-academy.ch
Kalika Mehta has been a PhD Candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since November 2018. She holds an LL.M. cum laude from Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva (2015-16) and BA.LL.B (Hons.) from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab (2010-15). She is qualified to practice law in India.
Before joining the program, she briefly worked on the transitional justice issues in Myanmar followed by a Traineeship at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. At ECCHR, she primarily assisted on the situation of War Crimes in Iraq by the UK Forces between 2003 - 2008 before the International Criminal Court. In 2018, she taught undergraduate students at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat, India.
Her research interests include International Criminal Law, Strategic Litigation, and Transitional Justice.
Abhishek Mishra
Abhishek has five years of academic experience in India as Assistant Professor, prior to joining AMBSL, University of Hamburg; he was associated with WBNUJS, Kolkata. WB, India. and two years of international and national law firms experience. He has published articles in various journals such as Year Book on Indian Society of International Law. He also has a book to his credit on Capital Market: Legal Regime in India published in India. He is presently researching on the topic of “Extrajudicial Killings: Normative study to determine the impact on State and Democracy in changing World Order.” The central thrust of his thesis is comparative study of certain States to identify the raison d’etre of extrajudicial killings in those states. The study analyses the relationship between right to life under international law and municipal law.
Tomas Restrepo Rodriguez
tomas.restrepo"AT"uexternado.edu.co
Tomás is a Colombian attorney and academic interested in private law, international law, environmental law, and energy law. He holds an MBL in International Energy Law from the TU Berlin and the Berlin Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law, as well as an LLM in Banking and Finance from Queen Mary, University of London. He is researcher and teacher at the Civil Law Department and the Mines and Energy Department of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has published scientific articles in Colombia and in Germany. He is currently working on his dissertation, which explores intersections between international investment arbitration and climate change law.
Plarent Ruka, MLB, LLM (Hamburg)
Plarent received his law degree from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Law in 2003. He is also a graduate of the European Center for Security Studies “George C. Marshall” (2007) and the Albanian School of Political Studies (2009). He holds a Master of Law and Business Degree from the Joachim Herz program of the Bucerius Law School/WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (2010) and a Master Degree in European and European Legal Studies from Europa-Kolleg-Hamburg, University of Hamburg (2011). Plarent has worked for more than six years in various public institutions in Albania, at executive and political levels, such as the City’s Attorney Office at the Municipality of Tirana, Central Elections Commission, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Health. He has also practiced law in a leading Albanian law firm. Plarent has also been lecturing Public Law and Legislative Techniques for one academic year at a private university in Albania. Plarent’s main areas of interest and practice are European Union Law, International Public Law (with a particular interest in WTO Law), Public and Administrative Law, Business Law, etc. In addition to his mother tongue, Albanian, Plarent speaks English, German and Italian.
The International Legal Responsibility of the European Union in the Context of the World Trade Organization: A Focus on Matters of Incompetence
Plarent enrolled in the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in April 2012 and currently continues his research on the doctoral project: “The International Legal Responsibility of the European Union in the Context of the World Trade Organization: A Focus on Matters of Incompetence”. The topic addresses the implications that the blurred distribution of powers in the European Union (EU) polity can have for the international responsibility in mixed agreements, which is assumed to be jointly distributed among Member States. In his study, Plarent aims to elaborate the way the international legal responsibility arising out of the EU membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is distributed among the EU Member States, particularly in those cases where the EU defends before the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism matters that are part of its Member States’ competences. By identifying the relevance of principles and legal institutions in addressing this research question and by taking into consideration the evolving and the unstable nature of the distribution of powers in the EU, it might be possible to provide an alternative view to the joint responsibility regime.
Jan-Robert Schmidt
jan-robert.schmidt"AT"uni-hamburg.de
1990 in Köln geboren. Abitur 2009 in Brühl. Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Köln, Hamburg und Lissabon. Erste juristische Staatsprüfung im März 2015. Seit Mai 2015 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, Privatrechtsgeschichte der Neuzeit und Bürgerliches Recht von Professor Dr. Tilman Repgen. Seit November 2015 Mitglied der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Geschichte des 20 Jahrhunderts mit Schwerpunkt Rechtsgeschichte der Bonner Republik, Familien- und Kindschaftssachen.
Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, LL.M.
Uelkue.Sezgi.Soezen"AT"uni-hamburg.de
2012 Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an der juristischen Fakultät der Istanbul Kültür Universität und Universität Leipzig mit einem staatlichen Stipendium. 2011 studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Völker- und Europarecht der Universität Leipzig. 2013 LL.M. am Europa-Kolleg Hamburg mit einem Stipendium der Schulze-Fielitz Stiftung.
Seit November 2013 Mitglied der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL). Seit 2017 Koordinatorin der AMBSL. Aktuell Postdoc an der Universität Hamburg. Dissertationsthema: Die Assoziierung zur EU und Migrationspolitiken unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der mediterranen Drittstaaten.
Antonia Sommerfeld
Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Hamburg und Aix-en-Provence (Frankreich); 2017–2021 Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg; Forschungsaufenthalt an der University of Cambridge (Vereinigtes Königreich), Wolfson College; Lehraufträge an der Universität Hamburg und der China University of Political Science and Law, Peking (China); 2016–2020 Mitglied der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL), Universität Hamburg; seit 2020 Juristischer Vorbereitungsdienst am Hanseatischen Oberlandesgericht Hamburg.
Dissertation: „AGB-Reform und Rechtsflucht, Bedeutung der Rechtsflucht für die AGB-Reformdebatte im unternehmerischen Rechtsverkehr“ (summa cum laude), Mohr Siebeck 2021 (StudIPR); Betreuung durch Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski (Universität Hamburg).
Förderung: Promotionsstipendium der FAZIT-Stiftung.
Auszeichnungen: Förderpreis der Esche Schümann Commichau Stiftung; Werner-von-Melle-Preis 2021 (Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung).
Christian Steger
Christian Steger (28) studierte an der Universität Hamburg mit einem Studienschwerpunkt im Internationalen Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht sowie Rechtsvergleichung. Herr Steger sammelte als Praktikant und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bereits Erfahrungen in internationalen Großkanzleien. Sein erstes Staatsexamen absolvierte er im Sommer 2012. Zu Studienzeiten nahm Herr Steger für die Universität Hamburg am Willem C. Vis Moot teil. Später coachte er zwei Mal das Team der Universität Hamburg und ist Vorsitzender des Vis Moot Alumni UHH e.V. Mit Beginn des Dissertationsvorhabens wurde Herr Steger zum Wintersemester 2012 in die Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law aufgenommen. Seit Herbst 2012 arbeitet er daneben als wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg.
Die Präklusion von Anerkennungsversagungsgründen bei der Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche
Das Dissertationsvorhaben stellt die Frage der Präklusion von Versagungsgründen in den Fokus. Konkret soll untersucht werden, ob bestimmte Versagungsgründe im Rahmen des Anerkennungs- und Vollstreckbarerklärungsverfahrens ausländischer Schiedssprüche präkludiert sein können. Gegenstand der Betrachtung sind dabei jene Versagungsgründe, die das New Yorker Übereinkommen vom 10. Juni 1958 über die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche vorsieht. Die Arbeit untersucht und vergleicht dabei die Vollstreckungsregime verschiedener europäischer Rechtsordnungen. Abschließend möchte die Arbeit einen Beitrag zu der Frage liefern, ob auf diesem Gebiet eine weitere Harmonisierung geboten ist und wie diese sodann umgesetzt werden könnte.
Victor Ventura, LL.M.
victor.ventura"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de
Partner at Humberto Bezerra Law Firm LLP, in the North-East of Brazil. Environmental and Energy Law Attorney. Former Head of Legal Office at the state-level Superintendence for Environmental Management of Paraíba, Brazil. Juris Doctor from Hamburg, summa cum laude, with a dissertation on "Environmental Jurisdiction in the Law of the Sea: the Brazilian Blue Amazon", published with Springer. LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, in 2013. Former Lecturer of Public International Law in Brazil and in Germany, at the Law Faculty of the University of Hamburg. Special Rapporteur to the International Conference on Maritime Affairs and the Law of the Sea, in 2016, on invitation by the Germany-Japanese Center in Berlin. Fluency in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, both written and spoken, and advanced skills in French. Founding Member of the Brazilian Institute for the Law of the Sea (BILOS); Member of the Centre for Political and Strategic Studies of the Brazilian Navy (CEPE – MB) and Member of the State Environmental Council of Paraíba, Brazil (COPAM). Brazilian Specialist before the IUCN. Published extensively on the Law of the Sea, Environmental Law, Marine Governance and Human Rights. Licensed attorney before the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)[Curriculum Vitae]